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Charts Still Whistlin' Dixie
The Dixie Chicks, who last week set the single-week sales record for a female group, ran their chart-topping ride to a second week as Home continued to dominate. Home sold another 367,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to SoundScan numbers, pushing the album's two-week tally past the 1 million mark. Only Garth Brooks has had a faster selling country album.
Like the hugely successful, roots-minded music on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, the Chicks have delved even deeper into vintage country-bluegrass territory, unlike other nominally country acts like Shania Twain, Faith Hill and LeAnn Rimes. In fact, the Texas trio's current hit single, "Long Time Gone," lionizes the classic country sound and bemoans the genre's current state ("They may have money but they don't have Cash").
With 179,000 copies sold, The Eminem Show moved less than half of Home's numbers, but the mad rapper still landed the number-two spot on the charts. The Eminem Show has actually showed minor sales increases for each of the past few weeks.
Coincidentally, Eminem wrapped up his Anger Management Tour last Sunday near his hometown of Detroit, where he brought out the cameras to shoot footage for a concert home video set for early 2003 release. Meanwhile, a rough cut of Eminem's upcoming film debut, 8 Mile, premiered to good notices Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival.
The only new entrant into the Top 10 was pop-jazz babe Norah Jones, whose debut LP Come Away with Me jumped five spots to number six after spending 28 weeks on the charts. The album sold 75,000 copies last week.
The remaining Top 10, all holdouts, were: Avril Lavigne's Let Go at three, Nelly's Nellyville at four, Bruce Springsteen's The Rising at five, Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head at seven, Now That's What I Call Music! 10 at eight, Eve's Eve-olution at nine and Clipse's Lord Willin' at 10.
With the media attention focused on the September 11 anniversary, few record labels are releasing new albums. As a result, there were only two discs released last week that managed to crack the Top 100. Teen popster Aaron Carter (whose big Backstreeter of a brother, Nick, handled anthem duties at this week's opening Monday Night Football game) opened at 18 with Another Earthquake selling 41,000 copies.
The week's second-highest debut, Ozzfest Live 2002, sold 15,000 copies top chart at number 82. This year's annual tour compilation features Drowning Pool performing "Creeping Death," an eerie song--especially considering the group's singer passed away last month while on Ozzfest.
Elsewhere, Eva Cassidy's posthumous live collection, Imagine, jumped 73 spots to number 32. Six years ago, when the singer lost her battle with cancer, she was primarily an underground phenomenon. In the years since, her songs and story have gradually crossed her music into the mainstream.
Next week, look for the Dixie Chicks to rule once more as no new album is expected to crack the Top 10.
Here's a recap of the Top 10 albums for the week ended September 8:
1. Home, Dixie Chicks
2. The Eminem Show, Eminem
3. Let Go, Avril Lavigne
4. Nellyville, Nelly
5. The Rising, Bruce Springsteen
6. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones
7. A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay
8. Now That's What I Call Music! 10, various
9. Eve-olution, Eve
10. Lord Willin', Clipse
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